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The Quest for Israeli & Jewish Identity

“Jews, Go to Palestine”
By Yair Sheleg  |  24/09/2009
“Yair Sheleg explores the reasons for the upsurge in anti-Semitism in the past years

The Day after the War
By Yossi Klein-Halevi  |  24/09/2009
On the day after the war, when we clamber out from among the ruins of the old Israel, we will start over again from the beginning. This will be not only a physical renewal of what was destroyed, but a spiritual construction of something not yet formed, of some­thing not yet imagined.


Israel's Guernica
By Philip Leider  |  24/09/2009
“To my utter astonishment, and at a single glance (confirmed by several visits and many hours), I knew that I was looking at the best work of art made in Israel in my 15 years of looking at Israeli art.” Philip Leider considers Sigalit Landau's installation, The Country


Circumspection
By Neil Menussi  |  24/09/2009
Milah is a sign written both in the abstract space of symbols and on the body itself. It is a vital hub of ideas, in which diverse questions – about nature and God, sexuality and identity, freedom and power – converge

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“It is easier to talk with Islam than with Christianity”
By Moshe Shner  |  24/09/2009
Father Emil Shoufani, an educator and thinker from Nazareth, was behind the journey of a group of Israeli Arabs and Jews to Auschwitz. Moshe Shner, the child of Holocaust survivors from Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, met with him to discuss relations between Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Holyland

Rechtche's Sabbath candles
By Mimi Feigelson  |  24/09/2009
The Piaseczna Rebbe, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, is better known as the Esh Kodesh (the Fire of Holiness), the name of the anthology of Hasidic “torahs” he wrote in the Warsaw Ghetto. He and his writings play a decisive role in the life of Mimi Feigelson, the former director of the Yakar women's beit midrash i...

The forgotten element
By Menachem Ben-Shalom  |  24/09/2009
Privatization is a tool in the modern capitalist economy that is intended to transfer ownership of public assets from the public to the private sector. The process of privatization brings about a decline in the level of society's responsibility for its weaker members, and an erosion in their status as human beings...

Jerusalem, Jerusalem...
By Imre Kertész  |  24/09/2009
Nobel Prize laureate Imre Kertész records his impressions of a visit to Israel

It all depends on what Israel has to offer
By Hava Pinchas-Cohen  |  24/09/2009
Hava Pinchas-Cohen interviewed Sergio Della Pergola, a demogra­pher who specializes in the condition of the Jewish people, about future directions indicated by the data. “In the future, the majority of Jews will live in Israel. This will happen not because of Israel's attrac­tiveness, but because of the weakened s...

Longing for holiness
By Laurent Cohen  |  24/09/2009
Leonard Cohen is first and foremost a “man made of words,” an artist who has created an intimate, mystical oeuvre, considered one of the most important musical and literary endeavors on the modern cultural landscape. On passionate religious devotion, the presentation of human history as the source of failure and despai...

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